Title: include multiple Pages?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# include multiple Pages?

 *  Resolved [Doodlebee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodlebee/)
 * (@doodlebee)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-multiple-pages/)
 * I’m full of questions today.
 * Okay, I have a navigational list that is to go in the sidebar (using WordPress
   as a CMS, and all pages are Pages, save the index – that one will contain posts).
   This is a very complex sidebar, so I can’t reall yuse the wp_list_pages() thing,
   as it messes up my classes and ID’s. So I had to go for the straight hard-coding.
 * I still need some dynamic activity though – namely for the hover state of the
   link to remain when it’s aon the current Page. I have that working, no problem.
   My problem is that when I’m on a sub-Page (child of a Page), the sub_page link
   is highlighted as “current”, but the parent is not. I would like for *both* the
   parent *and* the child to be highlighted – but I can’t seem to find the proper
   code for that. I can *exclude* all I’d like – but it seems it would be easier
   if there were an “include” instead.
 * This is my example so far:
 *  `<ul id="nav">
    <li id="about" <?php if (is_page('2')) { echo "class=\"current\"";}?
   >><a href=""> <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/about_us_off.
   gif" width="128" height="16" alt="About Us" /></a></li> <ul id="subnav"> <li 
   id="about_lynne" <?php if (is_page('15')) { echo "class=\"current\"";} ?>><a 
   href=""> <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/about_lynne_off.
   gif" width="120" height="13" alt="About Lynne" /></a></li> <li id="about_book"
   <?php if (is_page('16')) { echo "class=\"current\"";} ?>><a href=""> <img src
   ="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/about_book_off.gif" width="
   120" height="13" alt="About the Book" /></a></li> <li id="mission_values" <?php
   if (is_page('17')) { echo "class=\"current\"";} ?>><a href=""> <img src="<?php
   bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/mission_values_off.gif" width="120"
   height="13" alt="Mission &amp; Values" /></a></li> </ul>
 * So, basically, if you’re on Page 15 (which is “About Lynne”, I would like “About
   Lynne” to be highlighted (as it is now), but I’d also like “About Us” to be highlighted
   as well (Page 2). I’ve tried:
 * `<li id="about" <?php if (is_page('2,15,16,17')) { echo "class=\"current\"";}?
   >><a href="">
    <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/about_us_off.
   gif" width="128" height="16" alt="About Us" /></a></li>
 * And it doesn’t work *at all*. Would anyone know the correct formatting of that
   so I could get what I want? I’d appreciate it 🙂

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-multiple-pages/#post-449465)
 * Well, when I’m stumped I cheat and go lift some code from a working theme. 😉
 * As I recall, the current version of wp-andreas09 may do what you’re looking for.
 *  Thread Starter [Doodlebee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodlebee/)
 * (@doodlebee)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-multiple-pages/#post-449474)
 * Thanks Han – but nope. I downloaded it (I also have andreas07) and neither one
   did this.
 * However, I figured it out on my own. Unreal.
 * So, for future reference, if anyone needs this function, it’s actually pretty
   easy. I’ll use the above example, and this is what the end result should look
   like:
 *  `<ul id="nav">
    <li id="about" <?php if (is_page('2') || is_page('15') || is_page('
   16') || is_page('17')) { echo "class="current"";} ?>><a href=""> <img src="<?
   php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/about_us_off.gif" width="128" height
   ="16" alt="About Us" /></a> <?php if (is_page('2') || is_page('15') || is_page('
   16') || is_page('17')) { ?> </li> <ul id="subnav"> <li id="about_lynne" <?php
   if (is_page('15')) { echo "class="current"";} ?>><a href=""> <img src="<?php 
   bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/about_lynne_off.gif" width="120" height
   ="13" alt="About Lynne" /></a></li> <li id="about_book" <?php if (is_page('16')){
   echo "class="current"";} ?>><a href=""> <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory');?
   >/images/about_book_off.gif" width="120" height="13" alt="About the Book" /></
   a></li> <li id="mission_values" <?php if (is_page('17')) { echo "class="current"";}?
   >><a href=""> <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/mission_values_off.
   gif" width="120" height="13" alt="Mission &amp; Values" /></a></li> </ul> <?php}
   else { echo "</li>"; } ?>
 * Woo-hoo! Yay for me 🙂
 * Thanks, though!
 *  [Copernicus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/copernicus/)
 * (@copernicus)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-multiple-pages/#post-449836)
 * THANK YOU! Your figuring this out (and posting the solution) has helped me as
   well! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

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